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jive verb- to speak with a lack of sincerity US, 1928
- Monkey wasn’t jiving about that bartender. He wasn’t exactly a rabbi[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 74, 1946
- Baby ... doll, baby, you ... you jivin me. You playin aron; right, doll? — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 250, 1952
- Let’s hold class for the squares on how to properly jive a chick. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 5, 1959
- The cops put me in the back room. I’m jiving with the spades. — Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of It, p. 19, 1968
- bI jive people if I don’t trust them, see. I jive that motherfucker because I don’t feel right with him, you dig my meaning. — Cecil Brown, The Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, p. 31, 1969
- “I ain’t jiving,” says the messenger. “He really wants you right away.” — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 12, 1970
- Sapphire puts her hands on her hips to indicate that she ain’t jivin’ and does mean to be taken seriously. — Carolyn Greene, 70 Soul Secrets of Sapphire, 1973
- Then Earl said I was jiving[.] — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 68, 1978
- to dance US, 1938
- When a band plays one [a rumba], flabbergasted hoofers try to jive to it. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 133, 1951
- It was Danny and the Juniors singing “At the Hop,” which gave Esme and me a chance to do some cool jiving all the way down the corridor to the history class[.] — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 10, 1959
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